Wu wants TO GET TO A FEW QUESTIONS! Awesome
Wu: "Declarations of noble intentsions from social media attentiosn
is
not
cutting
it any more"
There are a few specific policies I want to see.
With regards to transgender companies.
Facebook is a very very very dangerous place for transgender women. Almost as bad as reddit.
With the research my studio has done, Facebook does not respond to harassment. Facebook says "free speech."
Facebook's only next step is an appeal to your friends.,
I CANNOT EMPHASIZE THIS ENOUGH
If we don't have independent oversighte to overlook this, it won't get better.
We need this company to agree to outside auditing of their practices.
(I'm calling it now: Wu wants to get on this money train.)
Mitchell has collected data, and is collecting this data, and is going to continue to collect this data, but we need to do a better job collecting this data. So we need to collect data that says what is happening. Wu mutters an approval in her mike.
Mitchell talks about how swatting is going to be disproportianiate for a family of color.
(I have to say she's right. Swatting is fucking evil, and probably even more evil against a family of color.)
Wu: Marianne, I know you want some legislation, and you have met some very specific resistance from the ACLU.
Marianne: we need a very specific plan-of-attack. Legislative reform, technological reform WU:
MM-HUH. Marianne: and sociological reform. 27 states have laws about nonconsenual porn. She calls out Jackie Spear and Catherine Clark as good legislators.
Marianne: part of this narrative of free speech is not just coming from the harassers and the mobs, but it's also coming from the EFF and the ACLU. Those organizations do good work. So your revenge-porn harrasser gets cover from these organizations. We can't let the mobs or the ACLU define what free speech is. "if women say this is harassment, this is not free speech, they need to be able to say that." We're talking about things that risk people's safety, their mental health, their jobs.